According to Michael Schultz, director of student media interactive, the university has a limited amount of bandwidth it can use at one time and peer-to-peer traffic generally uses up more bandwidth because it is continually connected to the Internet.,”
Students throughout campus may have noticed the slow and disrupted Internet connection Monday, requiring Information Technology Services to schedule an emergency maintenance window.
In e-mail sent out Thursday, ITS said the reasons for the slow connectivity is related to "peer-to-peer connectivity."
According to Michael Schultz, director of student media interactive, the university has a limited amount of bandwidth it can use at one time and peer-to-peer traffic generally uses up more bandwidth because it is continually connected to the Internet.
In the e-mail, ITS said it is able to see who is using the peer-to-peer connections because "they use large amounts of Internet bandwidth."
Schultz said Marquette had blocked the common ports used by peer-to-peer networking, but the networks then began to use random ports to pass the blocked ports. He said there is nothing more the university can do unless it decides to restrict the amount of bandwidth each student is allowed to use each day.
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